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Chicago examiner sunday c ** ** Chicago september 25 1910 sunday ii this edition consists of m jjk 9 rokeigx Â«â€” want ads s^a f vg b autos t real kstate g v v vs 4â€”gfort markets v j v $ 6 editorial vknax i a i - j x drama *â€” magazine jjt3 a imszs p â„¢ ce - ve cents i j('jj Chicago and vicinity partiy fj r'l g cloudy sur.day monday partly fe i \"& cloudy and probably unsettled %; z v j moderate temperature moderate jjjm jfjm westerly winds til vol xi no 13 a m examiner's big suggess forces other papers to a penny tribune record-herald and inter ocean all decide to cut their former prices : ; on or about october 3 staggered by examtaer's greater than all morning papers combined circu ' lation rivals admit defeat tribune and times-herald once before reduced to one cent but failed to sell even at that price the tribune the record-herald and the inter ocean have been forced by the suc cess of the Chicago examiner to plan a reduction in the price of their papers in the city to one cent a copy in order to check their present rapid loss in circu lation this cutting of price which was decided upon recently after a comprehensive in vestigation by the individual newspapers of the Chicago examiner's large city cir culation will go into effect on or about october 3 posters telling of the reduction to one cent already have been secured by the tribune and the record-herald and are now ready for distribution the inter ocean will take no action along this line until after the other two-cent newspapers make a formal announcement to such asked to affirm or deny whether the record-herald had been forced to cut its city subscription price to one cent and whether the reduction would go into eftect on october 3 h 11 kohlsaat pub lisher of that newspaper said that is a business affair of the record-herald and as such i do uot care to discuss it inter ocean to rollow example regarding the tribune's contemplated actlou james keeley editor-in-chief said t i will talk about that later 3 s sherman business manager of the inter ocean said if the tribune and the record-herald cut the price the inter ocean will follow their example when the examiner entered the field seven years ago it was said that a one cent morning newspaper in Chicago could not succeed at that time the two-cent morning newspapers had considerable cir culation but when the examiner issued a modern newspaper for one cent that was superior to its two-cent contemporaries the 4 circulation of the latter fell rapidly at the end of three years the examiner bad more city circulation than the trib une and the keeord-herald combined sow at the end of seven years the ex aminer has 50,000 more city circulation than the tribune the kecord-herald and the inter ocean combined this is the real reason why the tribune has found it absolutely necessary to cut its price to one cent in an attempt to save its circulation from being completely wiped out some fifteen years ago the limes-herald the itecord-heruld's predecessor discour aged by its drooping circulation cut its price from two cents to a penny the trib une whose circulation was in but little better condition followed suit the next day but the public did not respond neither paper was of the type the people wanted the result was that the two-cent pries was restored after a few weeks for some time past rumors have been in circulation that big financial interests pre sumably in wall street have endeavored to secure control of both the tribune and | record-herald tribune reported sold so persistent and generally discussed were these rumors that the following dis patch appeared in the boston globe Chicago aug 14 the mccormick holdiugs of 47 per cent of the stock of the Chicago tribune are reported to have been sold for s6.uoo.ouij to j i morgan and john d rockefeller it is impossible to confirm this report to night according to the report which is be lieved in newspaper circles to be true mr morgan some time ago offered jd 260,000 for the mccormick interest later raising his bid to 0,000.000 victor f lawson of the daily news is said to have figured in negotiations for the mccormick stock but whether for himself or mr morgan has uot been made clear mr lawson is out of town it is admitted that victor f lawson publisher of the Chicago daily news and principal bondholder of the record-herald has endeavored to buy the tribune offering sum said to be 0,000,000 or 10,000,000 that amount to cover the newspaper itself the tribune building and the valuable juiunighl school lease vledill will prevented sale at that time the tribune trustees and the patterson interests wanted to sell but it was discovered that the will of the late joseph mcdiil prohibited the sale of the Chicago leads n y as greatest building city u s figures show gains in total operations first in wood and concrete structures washington sept 24 the inited states geological survey has issued a statement giving comparisons of building operations from which it appears thut the i largest increase reported for 1908 was j 8,141,720 or 13.78 per cent by Chicago j and the next largest was 4,446,700 or 3.u2 per cent by new york the increases in 1909 by these two cities were respectively 28,0cc.580 or 41.60 per cent and 568 228.095 or 57.91 per cent the average cost per building in Chicago was 4,341 in 1909 against 6,327 in 1908 seattle had the largest number of new wooden buildings 7,885 and los angeles was second with 5,284 buildings Chicago was the leading city in cost of wooden buildings with a total of 13,532,880 san francisco was second 12,2-57.683 new york reported the construction of fire resisting buildings at a cost of 181 918,337 Chicago was second with a cost of 79,105,500 Chicago took the lead in stone buildings new york being second and san francisco third Chicago was in the lead in con crete buildings with seattle second and philadelphia third noble bride hunter sued doctor who financed count's trip to i s brings action special cable to the examiner laibach austria sept 24 â€” count guido von auersperg reputed owner of 100.000 acres and the employer of 5,000 peasants who visited the united states last april in search of a bride has broken with his friend dr othmnr hegemann who says he financed the expedition i loaned auersperg 15,000 crowns 3 0001 on two occasions dr hegemaun said to-day and when he told me later that be was engaged to a millionaire's daughter i advanced him 20,000 crowns 4,000 more on his pledge to repay the loan with 4 000 crowns 800 bonus the count visited president Taft at washington and at tended a banquet at dayton 0 in honor of lieutenant ernest shackleton the eng lish explorer mrs yarling a countess broker's wife will become gajbri elle du chesuage of france : pittsburg pa sept 24 from being ' mrs a l yarliug wife of a wealthy broker to countess gabrielle du chesuage of chateau marlieu paris is to be the lot of mrs yarling mrs yarllng a bride of only six weeks is a granddaughter of the countess he mother was an only daugh ter but as the result of a marriage dis pleasing to the countess she left france she was educated from funds left in trust but it was only in the past year that her identity was so fully established that it was agreed to recognize her as heir to 10,000,000 the formal papers will bet signed and sealed by m jusserand french ambassador at washington friday send heart to spain will of chilean consul to pitts'burg contains curious clause pittsburg pa sept 24 the will of count julian s deovies former chilean consul iu pittsburg was probated to-day he leaves his entire estate to his wife minnie his son the rev raimundo ii deovies and his daughter edith manselea deovies one curious sentence in the will reads i request that my body be cremated and my heart be sent according to family custoni to the chapel of santo marie in luanco conbecejo de gozon province of austrias ispain signora deovies will carry out this re quest within two weeks airman as smuggler xieuport brings cigars over belgian border in aeroplane paris sept 24 the first case of smug gling by aeroplane was recorded ou thurs day when nieuport won a cross country race at the maubeuge flying meet near the | belgian frontier he landed at griindreng j and returned with flowers and cigars with which he had been presented by young belgian women the aviator distributed the cigars among the notables present who included a french customs officer from the head office the latter automobiled to maubeuge later iu order to satisfy himself that nieuport's aeroplane was not prepared for contraband work leaps as auto explodes l e harris sees gasoline tank in flames anil jumps in time l e harris 06 east thirty-seventh street leaped from his automobile while in ayashington park near fifty-third street last night when he saw the front of it in flames and a moment later the gasoline tank exploded destroying the machine harris ran to a are alarm signal box and turned in an alarm members of engine company no 45 soon arrived and ex tinguished the blaze but the machine valued at 51.500 was a wreck germs to stop colds london hospitals inject dead ba cilli to prevent disease london sept 24 several big london hospitals recently begun to extensively practice inoculation against colds it con sists in injecting hynodertulenlly a few million dead bacilli the first step is to find to what particular group of germs the patient is most susceptible in the lungs of one person pneumococcl may be ihe cause in another the bacillus of ca tarrh and in a third streptococci walling sued will show girl's letters Chicago millionaire offers missives in defe-jise of breach of promise action gains note as socialist grandson of vice presidential candidate refutes claim by rival of his wife new york sept 24 william english walling of Chicago millionaire author socialist and settlement worker husband of anna strunsky the noted russian au thoress and grandson of william h eng lish of indiana who once ran for vice president of the united states has de cided to summon to the supreme court miss anna bertha grunspan a french girl to compel her to tell where as she alleges walling promised to make her his wife mr walling expects to prove to the court before trial that the young woman's claim of 100,000 damages is without basis and he will prove this he says by exhibit ing a large bundle of letters which mibs grtinspan penned to him while they were simply good friends calls him benefector the first letter exhibited has this pas sage to be near yon and never to leave you would be the absolute ideal * â€¢ â€¢ it is true that i have no tight over yon yon are my benefactor my superior that is so it is my duty to submit to your will and not you to mine then follows a letter written to mr walling july 13 1905 in this miss grunspan says xxx but now you are so far from me and no more think of her who loves you of her who has a thirst to kiss you xxx i know you don't love me you bad boy bnt unfortunately i can't say the same for i feel a charm when you are at my side etc xxx i have just received the letter you wrote at warsaw but i read it with much pain and why i will not be the one to say however it is touching profound but hard involuntarily you hurt me i ought to say you do me nothing but good but i cannot for every time that i receive a letter in which there are the words i will hot permit any one to love me i do not wish to love that gives me vertigo makes me indifferent to everything and everybody around me i lack courage little fool do not love never love without being loved and don't be with a person who cannot and will not understand you i send you a good excuse deary you know that i wish you no evil it is at my self that i am angry for i have for you only gratitude and appreciation god knows that you have done only too much for me but i lack courage little fool the motion for the examination of the plaintiff before trial will be within a few days mr walling says he met miss grunspan in paris five years ago and that he befriended her when she came to him and begged him to intercede for her brother who had been arrested as a revo lutionist in st petersburg it was because he succeeded in freeing him walling's lawyer says miss grun span became infatuated witu him when he married miss strunsky the young french woman followed him to this country and brought sutt for 5100,000 for alleged breach of promise clews jr hires model rich artist advertises for serious young woman very slender newport r 1 sept 24 this ad vertisement appeared in a newport news paper to-day wanted â€” a serious vouag woman to pose in costume for artist must be about 5 feet and 6 inches and very slender apply at gardener's cottase at the koeks this advertisement was inserted by hen ry clews jr who since his return from paris.has been busily painting a model has been accepted but who she is has not been learned the advertisement recalls the famous hall of seven years ago when miss mabel slocum now mrs harold stlckney di vorced was the dresden girl at mrs stuy vesant fish's co.tillon mrs awrence a sister of mrs astor afterward bad the fa mous beauty pose for a painting yale head is u s envoy arthur hadley sails for europe to study effect of legislation i new york sept 24 arthur hadley president of yale sailed for england to day aboard the steamer arabic of the white star line accompanied by his wife and his daughter miss laura hadley mr hadley goes abroad as chairman of the united states itailroad commission to in vestigate in england and germany what effect our legislation is having on the desire of foreigners o buy our securities lie said he wanted to sound them ou fu j fure legislation mr hadley remarked i while in berlin he will represent yale | university at the centennial of the shiver 1 sky of berlin u s consul found dead jerome a o.uiij pennsyl vanlan expire suddenly nt florence special cable to the examiner florence sept 24 jerome a quay of pennsylvania the american consul here was found dead in bed this morning from heart disease he was at work in his office yesterday ' mr quay american consul at florence italy was seventh-two years old he was uppotntod to the consular service fro pennsylvania in 1005 he was at one iiuie superintendent of the pennsylvania state reformatory u shot to death at dance 11 clinton killed at turner hall slayer saved toy police h clinton twenty-four years old was shot and killed at the south side turner hall early to-day by joseph riley of thir ty-fiftb street and fifth avenue the shootiug oeeured while a dance given by the weutworth athletic club was in prog ress after he had killed clinton slle was attacked by sonic of the dancers us be attempted to escape he was rescued by the police in a bruised condition mrs gouraud recovers walks in garden of pjtrls hospital exitccts to leave soou special cable to the liumluer paris sept 21 mrs jackson gournud is rapidly recovering from the slight surgi cal operation performed last tuesday in the american hospital here her strength bus been regained already sufficiently to enable her to walk in tire garden every day she expects to leave the hospital in :: jstjott tiive ' son of j.c stubbs shot at cleveland general agent of union pacific found wounded outside of his office victim says he shot self mystery in accidental or at tempted suicide death believed near cleveland 0 sept 24 donald t stubbs thirty-five years old general agent here of the onion pacific railway was found shot in the left breast just outside his office on the fifth floor of the willlnms son building at midnight he is in lakeside hospital and it is feared may die he told the police the shootiug was accidental but was done by himself he is a son of john c stubbs traffic director of the harrlman road whose home is in Chicago police searched the union pacific of flee in . the williamson building after sttubbs had been taken to the hospital papers had been pulled from the drawers of his desk he had been sick a fresh box of cartridges apparently bought only with a few 63?5 sals found with a single cartridge mlssfny in the kjjolver was only one cartridge exploded police re ported the case as one of attempted self destruction at the apartments of mr and mrs stubbs in the haywood east elghty-flrst street no one could be found mrs stubbs and her mother had not been there all day neighbors said they did not know whether they had been there last night 4 whether domestic trouble preceded the shooting is a question the police are seek ing to determine but mrs stubbs ab sence lends an air of mystery to the case i don't know anything about donald's accident save the brief telegraphic mes sage saying that he had shot himself said the wounded man's father at his resi dence 1548 dearborn avenue this morn ing i am sure his wouud can only be the result of an accident i am sure that donald was accidentally shot said harrison m parker 413 deal ing place the wounded man's brother-in law his life since his marriage five years ago has contained nothing but happi ness he married a new york girl and they have made their home in cleveland ever since the wedding donald graduated from the university of nevada aboue six years ago and imme diately went into the railroad business he is thirty years old he has gone up rapidly in his profession he resided in j Chicago with bis parents until he went to college mystery veils razing of home muse tells of thief's threat owner of chain of stores fights flames to save in dian relics after robbery an amazing mystery viewed from anj one of its numerous angles is the are thai totally destroyed the palatial residence ol w e muse in fullersberg just outside ol hinsdale early yesterday the problem that confronts the police of the little sub urban town is one of the most interesting of recent years burglars according to the story related by the owner of the property ransacked his place in the early morning after hav ing threatened him with death if he made an outcry or attempted to give an alarm then still according to mr muse's story after having loaded their loot on an ex press wagon they soaked the floors the walls the furniture and everything else in the house with kerosene and gasoline and applied matches before the are department arrived the residence and its valuable contents treas ures that the owner had been collecting for years had been destroyed there are several features however that have not been explained to the satisfaction of the police muse owns chain of stores w e muse is wealthy and a man whose standing in the world of finance and busi ness is of the highest he is the president and general manager of the muse-faris yvalker company of los angeles cat the company cpnducts a large department store in the southern california city he is also the owner of a chain of dry goods stores about twenty-five in number extending from the panhandle of texas to california his credit among business men is good for almost any amount he is the manager of the credit department of the john v far well company of cnicago he has been with the latter company for twelve years he is a man well along in years one of his brothers is judge of the district court in dallas tex another is a prominent corpo ration lawyer of that city the muse home was picturesquely located on the brow of a hill almost in the center of n five-acre plat of ground in fullersberg money had been spent lavishly on the home it was a two-story structure of stone there are houses near the muse place but there are no very near neigh bors mrs muse has been in california for her health for the greater part of two years most of that time mr muse has boarded with a mrs paltmnn in fullersberg he moved oat to ills own home about two week ago ami hnd begun to put it in shape for the bome-conring of mrs muse who bud planned to return in a short time mr m\:sc recording to ms story lias been for years an enthusiastic collector or indian relicp 1 the homo were line ex [ amplos of prehistoric pottery indian trap at top william e muse in center at left mrs muse at rigtit the miise home before the fire at bottom ruins of home mansion is gift of wife to mac veagh 250,000 home is built se cretly for christmas pres ent to secretary washington sept 24 mrs franklin macveagh wife of the secretary of the treasury is building a 250,000 mansion here as a christmas gift for her husband mr and mrs macveagh are socially active both in their home city Chicago and in washington and mrs macveagh desires her husband to own a residence in the capital where they can entertain upon a lavish scale and where he can receive his business and political friends she tried to conceal her identity as the builder of the washington residence in order to surprise her husband with the gift but it is known that she will pay for the building which eveu in its unfinished state is attracting much atention the new building which stands on the sixteenth street hill commanding a view of the entire city will be one of the moÃŸt magnificent homes in the capital the fair ! donor has thought of everything that might appeal to a man in planning the house and when she turns it over to her husband on christmas day nothing will be lacking in sumptuousness of appointment on the first floor mrs macveagh has designed an office for her husband with anterooms cloakrooms and retiring cham bers here he will have his clerks and stenographers and conduct his Chicago business a well as perform his govern ! niest duties in the music room which occupies one end of the second floor a big pipe organ will he installed there will be a large conservatory in which it is planned there shall be one of the finest floral collections lin the united states on the second floor will also be an enormous drawing room furnished with almost prodigal lavlshness the state dining room is just behind the drawing room the third floor will be given over to bed chambers and suites for guest quarters for an army of servants will be on the fourth floor the-reclplent of the magnificent gift will be free from invasion in the part of the house reserved especially for him his personal servant will occupy rooms near his office and he wii also have there liu private lounging and smoking rooms and nb'rary â– . . _ /', ( 1,000 lorimer bribe admitted before death by rep luke clinton state's attorney tells burke of legislator's con fession that he was paid for voting for the senator senator's prosecutors plan to fight to-morrow to in troduce evidence of jack pot before committee attorneys for voters league will insist on putting in air details relating to so called bathroom bribery springfield 111 sept 24.-that representative charles luke of washington county confessed before he died that h had been bribed to vote for william lorl mer for senator was the information which reached the office of state's attor ney edmund burke here to-day luke said he got 1,000 for his vote and confessed the story of the bribery to hugh v murray state's attorney of clinton county owing to the recent death of mr luis the clinton county state's attorney il'il not give out the litfermaiioj nÂ»il lis thought it was absolutely necessary luke it is aid made his confession to murray in his office at carlylo august is 1909 some lime before the confession of charles a white was made public ac cording to the information which murray has now turned over to burke's office luke came to him and told hlni he was troubled in mind and wanted to confess to somebody murray told him to go ahead and that he would not hold against him anything that luke might tell then it was becom ing to murray that luke unburdened bis mind by telling in every detail how be had voted for i.orimer and been paid 1,000 in st louis according to the same information luke said he had received the money the day the bathroom boys got theirs he also told of receiving s9oo jackpot money luke told murray that he met michael 8 link h t c beckemeyer charles a white joseph s clark and harry shepard just outside of the bathroom in the southern hotel and that the money had been paid him in the bathroom after some of the boys had gone in ahead of him murray it is said is willing to go be fore the subcommittee of the unitedl states senate now sitting in Chicago and tell the story of the bribery as it was told to him by lake lorimer foes plan to tell of the jackpot with the opening of the first session foe â– , the taking of testimony in the lorimer . election investigation a warm skirmish ist expected to-morrow forenoon over th . question of the admissibility of evidence i relating to the famous jackpot pty--t ments to Illinois legislators in bathrooms at st louis and springfield \ from the start the prosecutfca rep resented by attorney alfred austrian wc 1 be ready to wage a brisk battle tor the j admission of testimony anent the jack ' pot and the alleged jaekpotterg ttt . his address opposing the application of senator ixirlmer for delay mr austrian ! said he had evidence showing that tat same stick that tarred the jack potter was also used in the campaign to elect lorimer a senator of the united states for the defense attorney elbrldgs hanecy will argne for a rule to exclude all the testimony of jackpottlng on the ground that the so-called packpot has never been shown to have any direct or necessary connection with the alleged pur chase of the votes needed by lorimer to obtain the majority that elected him a senator deputy marshals of the united stales were busy yesterday in Chicago and throughout the state serving subpoenas for the thirty-five witnesses whose name were given to the investigators friday i attorney austrian representing the legis lative voters league and others interested it was admitted at the office of lulled states marshal hoy that a large number of subpoenas have been served but tun seal of secrecy as to the identity of the prospective witnesses remained unbroken among the persons served with subpoenas yesterday was charles a white chief ac cuser of lee o'xeil browne in the crim inal court trials who is expected to be one of the star witnesses against lorimer he was found by a deputy sheriff in the office of attorney austrian he accepted service it was admitted that he would j be the first witness t tui.e the t i morrow in the mesetslne courtroom -- ; the congress hotel other witnesses sue poeiined for to-morrow are state senator l w holstlaw and representative il j c beekeraeyer in the list of wrltnesso submitted br former judge hnr.ecy were the nines nt t lee o'neil browne speake >. unlit . represent i-,c liuvlfl shanahaii ai i many other luiyubms if 'â– 'â– â– â– genera assewfcl :. ihe time c-f luriuicr's clccul'b i continued on ton page 2d column 1 continued on 11th page 2d column '

Chicago examiner sunday c ** ** Chicago september 25 1910 sunday ii this edition consists of m jjk 9 rokeigx Â«â€” want ads s^a f vg b autos t real kstate g v v vs 4â€”gfort markets v j v $ 6 editorial vknax i a i - j x drama *â€” magazine jjt3 a imszs p â„¢ ce - ve cents i j('jj Chicago and vicinity partiy fj r'l g cloudy sur.day monday partly fe i \"& cloudy and probably unsettled %; z v j moderate temperature moderate jjjm jfjm westerly winds til vol xi no 13 a m examiner's big suggess forces other papers to a penny tribune record-herald and inter ocean all decide to cut their former prices : ; on or about october 3 staggered by examtaer's greater than all morning papers combined circu ' lation rivals admit defeat tribune and times-herald once before reduced to one cent but failed to sell even at that price the tribune the record-herald and the inter ocean have been forced by the suc cess of the Chicago examiner to plan a reduction in the price of their papers in the city to one cent a copy in order to check their present rapid loss in circu lation this cutting of price which was decided upon recently after a comprehensive in vestigation by the individual newspapers of the Chicago examiner's large city cir culation will go into effect on or about october 3 posters telling of the reduction to one cent already have been secured by the tribune and the record-herald and are now ready for distribution the inter ocean will take no action along this line until after the other two-cent newspapers make a formal announcement to such asked to affirm or deny whether the record-herald had been forced to cut its city subscription price to one cent and whether the reduction would go into eftect on october 3 h 11 kohlsaat pub lisher of that newspaper said that is a business affair of the record-herald and as such i do uot care to discuss it inter ocean to rollow example regarding the tribune's contemplated actlou james keeley editor-in-chief said t i will talk about that later 3 s sherman business manager of the inter ocean said if the tribune and the record-herald cut the price the inter ocean will follow their example when the examiner entered the field seven years ago it was said that a one cent morning newspaper in Chicago could not succeed at that time the two-cent morning newspapers had considerable cir culation but when the examiner issued a modern newspaper for one cent that was superior to its two-cent contemporaries the 4 circulation of the latter fell rapidly at the end of three years the examiner bad more city circulation than the trib une and the keeord-herald combined sow at the end of seven years the ex aminer has 50,000 more city circulation than the tribune the kecord-herald and the inter ocean combined this is the real reason why the tribune has found it absolutely necessary to cut its price to one cent in an attempt to save its circulation from being completely wiped out some fifteen years ago the limes-herald the itecord-heruld's predecessor discour aged by its drooping circulation cut its price from two cents to a penny the trib une whose circulation was in but little better condition followed suit the next day but the public did not respond neither paper was of the type the people wanted the result was that the two-cent pries was restored after a few weeks for some time past rumors have been in circulation that big financial interests pre sumably in wall street have endeavored to secure control of both the tribune and | record-herald tribune reported sold so persistent and generally discussed were these rumors that the following dis patch appeared in the boston globe Chicago aug 14 the mccormick holdiugs of 47 per cent of the stock of the Chicago tribune are reported to have been sold for s6.uoo.ouij to j i morgan and john d rockefeller it is impossible to confirm this report to night according to the report which is be lieved in newspaper circles to be true mr morgan some time ago offered jd 260,000 for the mccormick interest later raising his bid to 0,000.000 victor f lawson of the daily news is said to have figured in negotiations for the mccormick stock but whether for himself or mr morgan has uot been made clear mr lawson is out of town it is admitted that victor f lawson publisher of the Chicago daily news and principal bondholder of the record-herald has endeavored to buy the tribune offering sum said to be 0,000,000 or 10,000,000 that amount to cover the newspaper itself the tribune building and the valuable juiunighl school lease vledill will prevented sale at that time the tribune trustees and the patterson interests wanted to sell but it was discovered that the will of the late joseph mcdiil prohibited the sale of the Chicago leads n y as greatest building city u s figures show gains in total operations first in wood and concrete structures washington sept 24 the inited states geological survey has issued a statement giving comparisons of building operations from which it appears thut the i largest increase reported for 1908 was j 8,141,720 or 13.78 per cent by Chicago j and the next largest was 4,446,700 or 3.u2 per cent by new york the increases in 1909 by these two cities were respectively 28,0cc.580 or 41.60 per cent and 568 228.095 or 57.91 per cent the average cost per building in Chicago was 4,341 in 1909 against 6,327 in 1908 seattle had the largest number of new wooden buildings 7,885 and los angeles was second with 5,284 buildings Chicago was the leading city in cost of wooden buildings with a total of 13,532,880 san francisco was second 12,2-57.683 new york reported the construction of fire resisting buildings at a cost of 181 918,337 Chicago was second with a cost of 79,105,500 Chicago took the lead in stone buildings new york being second and san francisco third Chicago was in the lead in con crete buildings with seattle second and philadelphia third noble bride hunter sued doctor who financed count's trip to i s brings action special cable to the examiner laibach austria sept 24 â€” count guido von auersperg reputed owner of 100.000 acres and the employer of 5,000 peasants who visited the united states last april in search of a bride has broken with his friend dr othmnr hegemann who says he financed the expedition i loaned auersperg 15,000 crowns 3 0001 on two occasions dr hegemaun said to-day and when he told me later that be was engaged to a millionaire's daughter i advanced him 20,000 crowns 4,000 more on his pledge to repay the loan with 4 000 crowns 800 bonus the count visited president Taft at washington and at tended a banquet at dayton 0 in honor of lieutenant ernest shackleton the eng lish explorer mrs yarling a countess broker's wife will become gajbri elle du chesuage of france : pittsburg pa sept 24 from being ' mrs a l yarliug wife of a wealthy broker to countess gabrielle du chesuage of chateau marlieu paris is to be the lot of mrs yarling mrs yarllng a bride of only six weeks is a granddaughter of the countess he mother was an only daugh ter but as the result of a marriage dis pleasing to the countess she left france she was educated from funds left in trust but it was only in the past year that her identity was so fully established that it was agreed to recognize her as heir to 10,000,000 the formal papers will bet signed and sealed by m jusserand french ambassador at washington friday send heart to spain will of chilean consul to pitts'burg contains curious clause pittsburg pa sept 24 the will of count julian s deovies former chilean consul iu pittsburg was probated to-day he leaves his entire estate to his wife minnie his son the rev raimundo ii deovies and his daughter edith manselea deovies one curious sentence in the will reads i request that my body be cremated and my heart be sent according to family custoni to the chapel of santo marie in luanco conbecejo de gozon province of austrias ispain signora deovies will carry out this re quest within two weeks airman as smuggler xieuport brings cigars over belgian border in aeroplane paris sept 24 the first case of smug gling by aeroplane was recorded ou thurs day when nieuport won a cross country race at the maubeuge flying meet near the | belgian frontier he landed at griindreng j and returned with flowers and cigars with which he had been presented by young belgian women the aviator distributed the cigars among the notables present who included a french customs officer from the head office the latter automobiled to maubeuge later iu order to satisfy himself that nieuport's aeroplane was not prepared for contraband work leaps as auto explodes l e harris sees gasoline tank in flames anil jumps in time l e harris 06 east thirty-seventh street leaped from his automobile while in ayashington park near fifty-third street last night when he saw the front of it in flames and a moment later the gasoline tank exploded destroying the machine harris ran to a are alarm signal box and turned in an alarm members of engine company no 45 soon arrived and ex tinguished the blaze but the machine valued at 51.500 was a wreck germs to stop colds london hospitals inject dead ba cilli to prevent disease london sept 24 several big london hospitals recently begun to extensively practice inoculation against colds it con sists in injecting hynodertulenlly a few million dead bacilli the first step is to find to what particular group of germs the patient is most susceptible in the lungs of one person pneumococcl may be ihe cause in another the bacillus of ca tarrh and in a third streptococci walling sued will show girl's letters Chicago millionaire offers missives in defe-jise of breach of promise action gains note as socialist grandson of vice presidential candidate refutes claim by rival of his wife new york sept 24 william english walling of Chicago millionaire author socialist and settlement worker husband of anna strunsky the noted russian au thoress and grandson of william h eng lish of indiana who once ran for vice president of the united states has de cided to summon to the supreme court miss anna bertha grunspan a french girl to compel her to tell where as she alleges walling promised to make her his wife mr walling expects to prove to the court before trial that the young woman's claim of 100,000 damages is without basis and he will prove this he says by exhibit ing a large bundle of letters which mibs grtinspan penned to him while they were simply good friends calls him benefector the first letter exhibited has this pas sage to be near yon and never to leave you would be the absolute ideal * â€¢ â€¢ it is true that i have no tight over yon yon are my benefactor my superior that is so it is my duty to submit to your will and not you to mine then follows a letter written to mr walling july 13 1905 in this miss grunspan says xxx but now you are so far from me and no more think of her who loves you of her who has a thirst to kiss you xxx i know you don't love me you bad boy bnt unfortunately i can't say the same for i feel a charm when you are at my side etc xxx i have just received the letter you wrote at warsaw but i read it with much pain and why i will not be the one to say however it is touching profound but hard involuntarily you hurt me i ought to say you do me nothing but good but i cannot for every time that i receive a letter in which there are the words i will hot permit any one to love me i do not wish to love that gives me vertigo makes me indifferent to everything and everybody around me i lack courage little fool do not love never love without being loved and don't be with a person who cannot and will not understand you i send you a good excuse deary you know that i wish you no evil it is at my self that i am angry for i have for you only gratitude and appreciation god knows that you have done only too much for me but i lack courage little fool the motion for the examination of the plaintiff before trial will be within a few days mr walling says he met miss grunspan in paris five years ago and that he befriended her when she came to him and begged him to intercede for her brother who had been arrested as a revo lutionist in st petersburg it was because he succeeded in freeing him walling's lawyer says miss grun span became infatuated witu him when he married miss strunsky the young french woman followed him to this country and brought sutt for 5100,000 for alleged breach of promise clews jr hires model rich artist advertises for serious young woman very slender newport r 1 sept 24 this ad vertisement appeared in a newport news paper to-day wanted â€” a serious vouag woman to pose in costume for artist must be about 5 feet and 6 inches and very slender apply at gardener's cottase at the koeks this advertisement was inserted by hen ry clews jr who since his return from paris.has been busily painting a model has been accepted but who she is has not been learned the advertisement recalls the famous hall of seven years ago when miss mabel slocum now mrs harold stlckney di vorced was the dresden girl at mrs stuy vesant fish's co.tillon mrs awrence a sister of mrs astor afterward bad the fa mous beauty pose for a painting yale head is u s envoy arthur hadley sails for europe to study effect of legislation i new york sept 24 arthur hadley president of yale sailed for england to day aboard the steamer arabic of the white star line accompanied by his wife and his daughter miss laura hadley mr hadley goes abroad as chairman of the united states itailroad commission to in vestigate in england and germany what effect our legislation is having on the desire of foreigners o buy our securities lie said he wanted to sound them ou fu j fure legislation mr hadley remarked i while in berlin he will represent yale | university at the centennial of the shiver 1 sky of berlin u s consul found dead jerome a o.uiij pennsyl vanlan expire suddenly nt florence special cable to the examiner florence sept 24 jerome a quay of pennsylvania the american consul here was found dead in bed this morning from heart disease he was at work in his office yesterday ' mr quay american consul at florence italy was seventh-two years old he was uppotntod to the consular service fro pennsylvania in 1005 he was at one iiuie superintendent of the pennsylvania state reformatory u shot to death at dance 11 clinton killed at turner hall slayer saved toy police h clinton twenty-four years old was shot and killed at the south side turner hall early to-day by joseph riley of thir ty-fiftb street and fifth avenue the shootiug oeeured while a dance given by the weutworth athletic club was in prog ress after he had killed clinton slle was attacked by sonic of the dancers us be attempted to escape he was rescued by the police in a bruised condition mrs gouraud recovers walks in garden of pjtrls hospital exitccts to leave soou special cable to the liumluer paris sept 21 mrs jackson gournud is rapidly recovering from the slight surgi cal operation performed last tuesday in the american hospital here her strength bus been regained already sufficiently to enable her to walk in tire garden every day she expects to leave the hospital in :: jstjott tiive ' son of j.c stubbs shot at cleveland general agent of union pacific found wounded outside of his office victim says he shot self mystery in accidental or at tempted suicide death believed near cleveland 0 sept 24 donald t stubbs thirty-five years old general agent here of the onion pacific railway was found shot in the left breast just outside his office on the fifth floor of the willlnms son building at midnight he is in lakeside hospital and it is feared may die he told the police the shootiug was accidental but was done by himself he is a son of john c stubbs traffic director of the harrlman road whose home is in Chicago police searched the union pacific of flee in . the williamson building after sttubbs had been taken to the hospital papers had been pulled from the drawers of his desk he had been sick a fresh box of cartridges apparently bought only with a few 63?5 sals found with a single cartridge mlssfny in the kjjolver was only one cartridge exploded police re ported the case as one of attempted self destruction at the apartments of mr and mrs stubbs in the haywood east elghty-flrst street no one could be found mrs stubbs and her mother had not been there all day neighbors said they did not know whether they had been there last night 4 whether domestic trouble preceded the shooting is a question the police are seek ing to determine but mrs stubbs ab sence lends an air of mystery to the case i don't know anything about donald's accident save the brief telegraphic mes sage saying that he had shot himself said the wounded man's father at his resi dence 1548 dearborn avenue this morn ing i am sure his wouud can only be the result of an accident i am sure that donald was accidentally shot said harrison m parker 413 deal ing place the wounded man's brother-in law his life since his marriage five years ago has contained nothing but happi ness he married a new york girl and they have made their home in cleveland ever since the wedding donald graduated from the university of nevada aboue six years ago and imme diately went into the railroad business he is thirty years old he has gone up rapidly in his profession he resided in j Chicago with bis parents until he went to college mystery veils razing of home muse tells of thief's threat owner of chain of stores fights flames to save in dian relics after robbery an amazing mystery viewed from anj one of its numerous angles is the are thai totally destroyed the palatial residence ol w e muse in fullersberg just outside ol hinsdale early yesterday the problem that confronts the police of the little sub urban town is one of the most interesting of recent years burglars according to the story related by the owner of the property ransacked his place in the early morning after hav ing threatened him with death if he made an outcry or attempted to give an alarm then still according to mr muse's story after having loaded their loot on an ex press wagon they soaked the floors the walls the furniture and everything else in the house with kerosene and gasoline and applied matches before the are department arrived the residence and its valuable contents treas ures that the owner had been collecting for years had been destroyed there are several features however that have not been explained to the satisfaction of the police muse owns chain of stores w e muse is wealthy and a man whose standing in the world of finance and busi ness is of the highest he is the president and general manager of the muse-faris yvalker company of los angeles cat the company cpnducts a large department store in the southern california city he is also the owner of a chain of dry goods stores about twenty-five in number extending from the panhandle of texas to california his credit among business men is good for almost any amount he is the manager of the credit department of the john v far well company of cnicago he has been with the latter company for twelve years he is a man well along in years one of his brothers is judge of the district court in dallas tex another is a prominent corpo ration lawyer of that city the muse home was picturesquely located on the brow of a hill almost in the center of n five-acre plat of ground in fullersberg money had been spent lavishly on the home it was a two-story structure of stone there are houses near the muse place but there are no very near neigh bors mrs muse has been in california for her health for the greater part of two years most of that time mr muse has boarded with a mrs paltmnn in fullersberg he moved oat to ills own home about two week ago ami hnd begun to put it in shape for the bome-conring of mrs muse who bud planned to return in a short time mr m\:sc recording to ms story lias been for years an enthusiastic collector or indian relicp 1 the homo were line ex [ amplos of prehistoric pottery indian trap at top william e muse in center at left mrs muse at rigtit the miise home before the fire at bottom ruins of home mansion is gift of wife to mac veagh 250,000 home is built se cretly for christmas pres ent to secretary washington sept 24 mrs franklin macveagh wife of the secretary of the treasury is building a 250,000 mansion here as a christmas gift for her husband mr and mrs macveagh are socially active both in their home city Chicago and in washington and mrs macveagh desires her husband to own a residence in the capital where they can entertain upon a lavish scale and where he can receive his business and political friends she tried to conceal her identity as the builder of the washington residence in order to surprise her husband with the gift but it is known that she will pay for the building which eveu in its unfinished state is attracting much atention the new building which stands on the sixteenth street hill commanding a view of the entire city will be one of the moÃŸt magnificent homes in the capital the fair ! donor has thought of everything that might appeal to a man in planning the house and when she turns it over to her husband on christmas day nothing will be lacking in sumptuousness of appointment on the first floor mrs macveagh has designed an office for her husband with anterooms cloakrooms and retiring cham bers here he will have his clerks and stenographers and conduct his Chicago business a well as perform his govern ! niest duties in the music room which occupies one end of the second floor a big pipe organ will he installed there will be a large conservatory in which it is planned there shall be one of the finest floral collections lin the united states on the second floor will also be an enormous drawing room furnished with almost prodigal lavlshness the state dining room is just behind the drawing room the third floor will be given over to bed chambers and suites for guest quarters for an army of servants will be on the fourth floor the-reclplent of the magnificent gift will be free from invasion in the part of the house reserved especially for him his personal servant will occupy rooms near his office and he wii also have there liu private lounging and smoking rooms and nb'rary â– . . _ /', ( 1,000 lorimer bribe admitted before death by rep luke clinton state's attorney tells burke of legislator's con fession that he was paid for voting for the senator senator's prosecutors plan to fight to-morrow to in troduce evidence of jack pot before committee attorneys for voters league will insist on putting in air details relating to so called bathroom bribery springfield 111 sept 24.-that representative charles luke of washington county confessed before he died that h had been bribed to vote for william lorl mer for senator was the information which reached the office of state's attor ney edmund burke here to-day luke said he got 1,000 for his vote and confessed the story of the bribery to hugh v murray state's attorney of clinton county owing to the recent death of mr luis the clinton county state's attorney il'il not give out the litfermaiioj nÂ»il lis thought it was absolutely necessary luke it is aid made his confession to murray in his office at carlylo august is 1909 some lime before the confession of charles a white was made public ac cording to the information which murray has now turned over to burke's office luke came to him and told hlni he was troubled in mind and wanted to confess to somebody murray told him to go ahead and that he would not hold against him anything that luke might tell then it was becom ing to murray that luke unburdened bis mind by telling in every detail how be had voted for i.orimer and been paid 1,000 in st louis according to the same information luke said he had received the money the day the bathroom boys got theirs he also told of receiving s9oo jackpot money luke told murray that he met michael 8 link h t c beckemeyer charles a white joseph s clark and harry shepard just outside of the bathroom in the southern hotel and that the money had been paid him in the bathroom after some of the boys had gone in ahead of him murray it is said is willing to go be fore the subcommittee of the unitedl states senate now sitting in Chicago and tell the story of the bribery as it was told to him by lake lorimer foes plan to tell of the jackpot with the opening of the first session foe â– , the taking of testimony in the lorimer . election investigation a warm skirmish ist expected to-morrow forenoon over th . question of the admissibility of evidence i relating to the famous jackpot pty--t ments to Illinois legislators in bathrooms at st louis and springfield \ from the start the prosecutfca rep resented by attorney alfred austrian wc 1 be ready to wage a brisk battle tor the j admission of testimony anent the jack ' pot and the alleged jaekpotterg ttt . his address opposing the application of senator ixirlmer for delay mr austrian ! said he had evidence showing that tat same stick that tarred the jack potter was also used in the campaign to elect lorimer a senator of the united states for the defense attorney elbrldgs hanecy will argne for a rule to exclude all the testimony of jackpottlng on the ground that the so-called packpot has never been shown to have any direct or necessary connection with the alleged pur chase of the votes needed by lorimer to obtain the majority that elected him a senator deputy marshals of the united stales were busy yesterday in Chicago and throughout the state serving subpoenas for the thirty-five witnesses whose name were given to the investigators friday i attorney austrian representing the legis lative voters league and others interested it was admitted at the office of lulled states marshal hoy that a large number of subpoenas have been served but tun seal of secrecy as to the identity of the prospective witnesses remained unbroken among the persons served with subpoenas yesterday was charles a white chief ac cuser of lee o'xeil browne in the crim inal court trials who is expected to be one of the star witnesses against lorimer he was found by a deputy sheriff in the office of attorney austrian he accepted service it was admitted that he would j be the first witness t tui.e the t i morrow in the mesetslne courtroom -- ; the congress hotel other witnesses sue poeiined for to-morrow are state senator l w holstlaw and representative il j c beekeraeyer in the list of wrltnesso submitted br former judge hnr.ecy were the nines nt t lee o'neil browne speake >. unlit . represent i-,c liuvlfl shanahaii ai i many other luiyubms if 'â– 'â– â– â– genera assewfcl :. ihe time c-f luriuicr's clccul'b i continued on ton page 2d column 1 continued on 11th page 2d column '